Briefly list any financial problems you face personally or as a household

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  1. Briefly list any financial problems you face personally or as a household, such as too much debt not enough savings, or not enough income.
  2. Describe your personal and household financial goals, such as paying off debt or earning more income. Include short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term goals.
  3. Develop a list of practical solutions to help solve the financial problems and reach the financial goals identified above.
  4. Criteria:

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

  • Write a minimum of 400 words (approximately 2 pages) using Microsoft Word.
  • Attempt APA style, see example below.
  • Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
  • Include cover page and reference page.
  • At least 60{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} of your paper must be original content/writing.
  • No more than 40{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} of your content/information may come from references.
  • Use at least two references from outside the course material, preferably from EBSCOhost.
  • Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the two reference requirement.
  • Reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) must be identified in the paper and listed on a reference page.
  • Reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) must come from sources such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, online newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc.
  • Sources such as Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, etc. are not acceptable.

Evidence of academically mature insight and use of critical thinking skills in analyzing and relating the articles

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For this assignment you will submit a 15 page paper, not including the title and reference pages, on a topic related to one of your classmate’s Article Summaries posted on the Week 2 Forum.

The Literature Review Paper will include brief summaries of the 6 to 8 articles focused on a topic in common retrieved from the APUS Online Library.

The summaries in this paper must be logically connected with clear articulations of how they are related to one another. This must be done via transition statements between descriptions of the various summaries such that the paper interweaves all the articles into a coherent and well-articulated review of scholarly publications related to the selected paper topic focus. For example, after one article summary, the statement, “Related research conducted by Jones (2011) showed that…” would be an effective means of connecting it to another summary. The paper will end with a minimum of two paragraphs summarizing points made and articulating suggestions for future research directions arising from the article reviews. This assignment submission will be evaluated based on:

The degree to which the article summaries are related and truly integrated within the paper; lack of supporting evidence of actual connections between the articles will result in a significant point deduction.

Evidence of academically mature insight and use of critical thinking skills in analyzing and relating the articles.

Clear and thorough articulation of the paper’s key points.

Compliance with APA paper formatting standards.

Minimal to no grammar, spelling or basic writing errors

Literature Review Paper Grading Rubric

The following categories and accompanying percentages of total points possible are used in the assessment of the Literature Review Paper commensurate with expectations for graduate study, advanced level writing.

Key assignment elements and percentage of total points possible:

15 {0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} – presentation (organization, clarity, readability and flow, adherence to length requirement)

20 {0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} – relevance (appropriateness of published literature used for completion of this assignment)

20 {0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} – topic coverage (comprehensiveness, focus, depth and breadth)

20 {0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} – maturity of insight (evidence of analysis and synthesis of and summary conclusions based on information from peer-reviewed articles)

** 10 {0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} – sources (required number of sources, correctly placed in paper body and References list; no use of dictionaries, blogs, new media, encyclopedias or commercial web sources used).

5 {0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} – APA formatting (paper formatting in compliance with the rules of the American Psychological Association)

10 {0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} – mechanics (spelling, grammar, sentence structure)

* The percentages above are for full instructions compliance. Your professor has expertise in evaluating the degree to which your writing work is in compliance with the assignment requirements and will assign and deduct full or partial point percentages for each category accordingly.

** Submitting a paper without correctly credited sources places you in danger of your work deemed plagiarized. Some students are surprised to learn that a submission with source credits named in the paper body and/or in the References list that must be attached to the end may still be a plagiarized paper if correct quoting isn’t done or the content of publications isn’t correctly paraphrased followed by source citations in immediate proximity of the paraphrasing in the paper body. The consequences of plagiarism are quite negative, with an automatic zero assignment score for the first instance and a failing course grade for the second, with no option for revision or extra credit to recoup lost points in either case, and thus having a paper identified as plagiarized isn’t something you want to risk. It is expected that via completion of an undergraduate degree, graduate students are in possession of knowledge of what constitutes plagiarism If you are in doubt about whether any portion of your paper could be considered as plagiarized

the process of memory

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You probably have noticed in your educational career that some people are very good at remembering facts and therefore, do well at tests that require memorization. Other students, on the other hand, struggle with tests that require memorization. To understand how memory works, this exercise will ask you to trace the memory system from the stimuli to long-term memory.

Use your textbook and research from the Internet to learn the process of memory, from beginning to end. Your description should include the following:

  • Identification and description of each step in the human memory model; as you describe these steps, use an example to illustrate the process
  • Discussion of factors that enhance or impede information flow in each step of the process
  • Explanation of proactive and retroactive interference and how you might counteract their effects while studying to facilitate maximum retention via long-term memory
  • Explanation of other kinds of forgetting and a discussion of strategies that can improve memory consolidation and retrieval

Submit this in a paper of 2–3 pages. You can use illustrations to demonstrate the process. Be sure to document your references using APA format.

Please use the following guidelines for formatting your assignment:

  • Margins: Set to one inch
  • Font: 12pt.-Times New Roman, no bold, no underline
  • Title: Centered above the paper, 12 pt.-font (Level A Heading), no bold, no underline, no italics
  • Pagination: Every page; consists of a header containing a short title for the paper and a page number placed in the upper right corner of the page
  • Line Spacing: Double space all work, including the References page
  • Point-of-View: Third person, objective; limit perspective to research; no personal opinion or narrative; first person is allowed in describing the test and results, as well as discussing personal ways to enhance EI
  • In-text citations: Must conform to APA requirements
  • References list: Must conform to APA requirements

Describe the origins or history of the mental disorders

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Assignment 2: Term Paper

Click here to download the W5 Assignment 2 Term Paper Template.

For Week 3, you developed an Annotated Bibliography of research on two disorders. For this assignment you will pick one of the disorders and write a term paper on that disorder.

Your paper should address information on the following areas:

  • Describe the origins or history of the mental disorders.
  • Describe the psychological theory or theories that relate to the mental disorders especially in the areas of diagnosis and treatment.
  • Describe the difference if any in age of onset and diagnostic criteria based on gender.
  • Explain the potential impact of the mental disorders on the individual and his or her family.
  • Explain the social perceptions of the mental disorders from stigma to advocacy.

The paper should adhere to the following guidelines:

  • The length of the paper should be 12–14 double-spaced pages (not including the title and reference pages).
  • For the main sections it should have a:
    • Title page
    • Introduction
    • Literature review
    • Conclusion
    • Reference page(s)

Please see the assignment template for details on each section.

Submit your paper in a Word document to the W5 Assignment 2 Dropbox

Name your document PSY2010_W5_A2_lastname_firstname.doc.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Submitted an introduction, with a brief overview of what will be covered and the purpose of the term paper.
70
Submitted a literature review for the term paper.
50
Submitted the discussion and conclusions.
80
Used correct spelling, grammar, and professional vocabulary and utilized APA format and style. Format will include:

  • A title page
  • An abstract (not more than 250 words)
  • An introduction
  • A literature review
  • Discussion or conclusions
  • Reference page
50
Total:
250